The combination of group assault and devastating counter-apologetics tends to drive away Christians.

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As Russell Glasser put it (paraphrasing), engaging in counter-apologetics is like playing Chess.

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The same imperative is felt to this day when atheists compare religion to fairytales and believers pen apologetics in response.

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There is a new strain of apologetics in the mediasphere, stories that strive to mitigate November's electoral trainwreck for the Democrats by invoking near occult powers of malevolence.

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But without unraveling the record of this period and making an effort to critically understand what it tells us, Muslims will remain stuck in apologetics, or worse denial.

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This happened to me over the past few years when I had been exposed to enough of the arguments and counter-arguments that I developed my own understanding of how the underpinnings of apologetics work and can identify where the fallacies lie on my own.

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What I (and others I associate with) have repeatedly found in Facebook discussion circles is that if you bring calm, surgical, devastating counter-arguments to bear against canned apologetics, the Christians involved tend to switch to preaching, keep ignoring your arguments, or just stop responding altogether.

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